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A new collection by Sean O’Brien – ‘Auden’s true
inheritor’, and one of our wisest poetic chronographers – is
not just a literary event, but also, invariably, a reckoning of the
times. Given the nature of our times, his voice is an essential
one: there is no other poet currently writing with O’Brien’s
intellectual authority, historical literacy and sheer command of
the facts. Embark also registers our unique cultural climacteric,
where the larger crises of the planet – the pandemic and the
terrifying spectre of revanchist nationalism among them – impact
all of us, and where the illusion of a church-and-state separation
of the personal and political can no longer hold. As the poet turns
seventy, he shows us how the inevitable absences that age brings
are assuaged by how we furnish them; the result is not just a logic
made from loss and pain, but a music, a metaphysic, and finally a
redemptive art. Embark reminds us of the enduring consolations of
love, of friendship, of the freedoms and possible futures still
afforded by the imagination – and, through O’Brien’s own
exemplary model, of poetry itself.
General
Imprint: |
Picador
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2022 |
Authors: |
Sean O'Brien
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Dimensions: |
196 x 153 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
72 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5290-9685-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5290-9685-5 |
Barcode: |
9781529096859 |
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